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Bug 990469 - ARM images have unaligned partitions
Summary: ARM images have unaligned partitions
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: appliance-tools
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dennis Gilmore
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks: ARMTracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-31 09:15 UTC by Hans de Goede
Modified: 2015-01-10 10:29 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-01-10 10:29:34 UTC
Type: Bug
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patch: use pated 'optimal' alignment instead of non-optimal cylinder alignment (704 bytes, patch)
2014-03-30 22:01 UTC, Jon Disnard 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Hans de Goede 2013-07-31 09:15:37 UTC 
Normally partitions created by either fdisk or parted are aligned to a multiple of 1MiB, so usually a multiple of 2048 sectors, for the F-19 arm images this is not the case, they don't seem to have any alignment at all, which is bad for performance:

[hans@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk /dev/loop5
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.1).

Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.


Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/loop5: 7889 MB, 7889485824 bytes, 15409152 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0006ca47

      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/loop5p1            1953     1001953      500000+  83  Linux
/dev/loop5p2         1001954     2001953      500000   83  Linux
/dev/loop5p3         2001954    14697265     6347656   83  Linux


This is also what is breaking rottfs-resize, as it re-creates p3 using fdisk which will then properly align
the partition start, making it different from what it was before.
Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2014-01-12 19:52:25 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 2 Jon Disnard 2014-03-30 22:01:35 UTC 
Created attachment 880547 [details]
patch: use pated 'optimal' alignment instead of non-optimal cylinder alignment

This patch goes with the upstream appliance-tools on fedorahosted:
 
https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/appliance-tools.git

It leverages 'parted -a optimal' instead of 'cylinder' based alignment.

Tested with ARM generated images only, but should be fine for cloud images too.

With optimal alignment, the starting offset of the first partition is 2048, instead of 1953 with cylinder alignment.
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Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2015-01-10 10:29:34 UTC 
This is fixed in F-21.
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